Organization and Newness

Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor, Beijing Normal University. He was a Professor at University of Waikato, University of Glasgow and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. He has published over 100 books, is Editor in Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory and Open Review of Educational Research, holds Honorary Doctorates from State University New York and Aalborg University, Denmark, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.Susanne Maria Weber, Prof. Dr., Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany. Professorship for societal, political and cultural conditions of education in international contexts, Working Group Innovation, Organization, Networks. Her main research fields are: discourse oriented organization and transformation research; participatory approaches and futurability; organizational education research methodologies; societal sustainability; organization and network development; organization and network consultancy; gender research, higher education and science research.

• Preface: Competing Conceptions of the Creative UniversityMichael A. PetersIntroduction: Organisation and NewnessSusanne Maria Weber, Michael A. Peters and Richard HeraudNotes on ContributorsSection One1. Intentional Organizational Change and the “New”: An Organizational Ethics Perspective of Change ManagementThomas Krobath2. Between Organization and the New: How Lists Are Used to Create (or Reduce) InnovationFabian Brückner3. How Do the New Outcome-Oriented Instruments Arise in the Faculty? A Theoretical and Empirical AnalysisKarl-Heinz Gerholz4. Innovation and Political Subjectivity: A Problem for the Actor in EducationRichard Heraud5. Organizational Dynamics within the Knowledge EconomyGeorge Lăzăroiu6. Researching Organizational Entry from a Perspective of Newcomer InnovationLine Revsbæk7. PISA as a Generator of InnovationMiriam Sitter8. Searching for the Change Agent: Steps towards an Ecology of InnovationSoren Willert9. Futuring Higher Education? The Innovativeness of Reforms: Turkey – A Critical Case StudyMete Kurtoğlu10. Money Rules Knowledge: The Emergence of Creative and Social Imperatives in the Epistemic FieldAgnieszka CzejkowskaSection Two11. Managerialism and the Neoliberal University: Prospects for New Forms of ‘Open Management’ in Higher EducationMichael A. Peters12. Artistic Interventions in Organizations as Intercultural Relational Spaces for Identity DevelopmentAriane Berthoin Antal and Gervaise Debucquet13. Working at the Edge of Innovation: Artists in LabsAngela Krewani14. Social Innovation and Social Intrapreneurship in German Welfare OrganisationsAndreas Schröer15. “Organizing a New Political Culture”: Women Writers and Shifts in Meanings, Power Relations and Social Web of SocietyRamona Mihăilă16. In the Wake of the Quake: Teaching the EmergencySean Sturm and Stephen Turner17. The Assertion and Development of ‘The New’ in the Context of Emancipatory New Social MovementsMeike Sophia Baader and Susanne Maurer18. Change by Design!? Knowledge Cultures of Design and Organizational Strategies of CreationSusanne Maria Weber19. Newness Against the Grain: Democratic Emergence in Organizational and Professional PracticePhilip A. Woods, Amanda Roberts and Glenys Woods20. Pedagogy and Organizational Learning: Theoretical Reflections on Synergetic as a Meta-Model for Designing Learning-Processes in OrganizationsPeter C. Weber21. Epilogue: Organizational Change, Newness and the Discourse of InnovationSusanne Maria Weber, Michael A. Peters, Richard Heraud and Annett Adler